Sunday September 7th was one of the biggest nights in the music industry-The 25th Annual MTV Video Music Awards. The show I have to say was something I've been looking forward to for weeks, and for one reason...BRITNEY SPEARS!! She cleaned out the awards by winning not one...not two...but THREE Moonman Awards for: Best Female Video, Best Pop Video & Video of the Year for her hot single "Piece of Me", where the entire audience gave the Princess of Pop a standing ovation. Britney by all means looked like her old self again, wear she wore two sexy glittery numbers that flattered her new tanned and toned body-not to mention her hair/makeup/skin looked absolutely flawless, which probably made Rihanna bow down after her laughing at Brit-Brit at the VMA's last year. All I have to say on behalf of Britney fans everywhere...welcome back vintage Britney-WE CAN'T WAIT FOR YOUR NEW ALBUM!!
The show was held at the Paramount Lot in Hollywood, California where it was opened up with Britney performing a comedy skit with Jonah Hill [Superbad] which led into the nights first performance by Rihanna singing her hit "Disturbia", where she came out to the stage what looked like a staircase-like dress that opened up to expose the singers less than flattering thighs-though I have to say her beau Chris Brown looked mighty fine in a white jacket and baby blue tie. He walked away with the award for Best Male Video for his single "With You".
The host for the evening was the flamboyant comedian Russell Brand *tumble weed* WHO?!? My question exactly! Apparently he's some "big" name in the UK, who I personally thought did a great job hosting the VMA's...even if he did make a reference about President Bush being a "retarded cowboy", and calling the Jonas Brothers out on their "so-called" pledge to remain virgins until marriage-Pshh! I was laughing!!
Presenters included: Jamie Foxx, Demi Moore, 8 time Olympic gold medalist Michael "The Aquaman" Phelps, Lindsay Lohan, Ciarra, Slash, Shia LeBeouf, Miley Cirus, Pete & Ashley Wentz [and their unborn child], Slipknot, John Legend, Jordan Sparks, The cast from highschool musical [Ashley Tisdell, Vanessa Hudgens, Zack Efron, & Corbin Bleu], Lauren Conrad, Chace Crawford, Paris Hilton & the infamous yet very hot Kobe Bryant who presented the last award for the evening.
The biggest shocker or should I say "shocker" was when Tokio Hotel beat out Katie Perry for Best New Artist for their song "Ready, Set, Go!" Katie Perry clearly had a better year and a far better single ["I Kissed a Girl"] than Tokio Hotel. Your the best in my books Katie! You can win the first ever: Media Princess Award for: "I was screwed at the VMA's but I have this no-name award to prove that I kick a**"
As the night rocked on with DJ AM [Nicole Richie's Ex-Boyfriend] and Travis Barker [Former drummer for Blink 182] collaborating on some great beats for the audience, and live performances by: The Jonas Brothers, Katie Perry, Lil Wayne [Ft. T-Pain & Leona Lewis], P!NK, T.I [Ft.Rihanna], Christina Aguilera [whom by the way looks ridiculously gorgeous after having a baby only eight months ago-but also resembled Lady Gaga & Britney Spears a bit with her new hair and makeup], LL Cool J, and Kid Rock [Ft.Lil Wayne]. The icing on the cake was Kanye West ending the VMA's with a new single and more importantly...WEARING A MODEST LOOKING SUIT! On top of him looking normal, he wasn't acting like "Kanye"-he seemed humble. I was impressed-yet a tad bit disappointed...there was no drama this year!
All in all, the MTV VMA's were as usual interesting, funny, and of course will be on repeat for the next twenty-five days...so in case you missed it, they will always be on! As for me, there was no performance that I was looking forward to-unlike last year where everybody was awaiting for the much anticipated come back performance by Britney Spears which of course disappointed MANY!
Whatever! The past is the past, and Ms.Spears is back and ready to reclaim her title...go Britney!
Ciao for now!
2008 MTV Video Music Award Winners:
Best Female Video
Britney Spears-Piece of Me
Best Male Video
Chris Brown-With You
Best New Artist
Tokio Hotel-Ready, Set, Go!
Best Rock Video
Linkin Park-Shadow of a Day
Best Hip-Hop Video
Lil Wayne-Lollipop
Best Dance Video
Pussycat Dolls-When I Grow Up
Best Pop Video
Britney Spears-Piece of Me
Video of the Year
Britney Spears-Piece of Me
